Abdus Samad Ghani

Abdus Samad Ghani (13 June 1948-7 June 1990) was a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader.

Biography
Abdus Samad Ghani was born on 13 June 1948 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family. Ghani's family was forced out of the city during heavy fighting between the Israeli Defense Force of Israel and the Arab Legion of Transjordan that same year, and Ghani's family moved to Lebanon. Ghani was raised in a time of warfare between Israel and the neighboring Arab countries, and Ghani joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1966 at the age of 18 while attending the American University of Beirut. Ghani rose in the ranks to become a PLO commander, and Ghani led several PLO attacks from Lebanon against Israel. During the Lebanese Civil War, Ghani commanded PLO forces in West Beirut against the IDF from 1982 to 1985. Ghani's role as a PLO commander in Lebanon and his membership of the organization around 1972 led to Israel targeting him during Operation Wrath of God, claiming that he had a hand in the Munich Massacre and several attacks on Israel.

On 7 June 1990 Ghani was killed when his car was bombed as he left the Beirut International Airport after returning from a trip to Tunisia for a meeting with the PLO leadership. At the time, he had almost no role in the organization, as they were not particularly active at the time; they were based in North Africa while the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians raged in the Levant. Ghani had more of an advisory role during the conflict after the end of the Lebanon War. His death was carried out by Mossad agents that put a pipe bomb in his car engine.